Elinor Busby


Elinor Busby is the first woman to win a Hugo Award as co-editor of Cry of the Nameless for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine.

Biography

Born Elinor Doub, Busby is a science fiction writer and Science-fiction fanzine editor and writer as well as a regular guest of honor and organizer at science fiction conventions mostly in the United States. She is married to editor F. M. Busby. They married in 1954 and had one daughter, Michele. Together with her husband she edited a fan magazine named Cry of the Nameless which won the Hugo award for Best Fanzine in 1960. They had previously been nominated in 1959 and were nominated again in 1962. She was awarded a Fan Activity Achievement Award for fan achievements, presented at Corflu in 2013.
Robert A. Heinlein in dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Busby and dedicated a later novel to her husband. Busby's husband died in 2005 and she donated his papers to Rivera Library's Special Collections Department.

Short fiction